TODAY IN CATHOLIC HISTORY Regina Magazine The First Crusade: Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria in A.D. 1098. Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon in A.D. 1474. Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome in A.D. 1524. In A.D. 1531, St. Juan Diego opens his tilma before the Bishop of Mexico City, Juan de Zumárraga, revealing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee in the Encyclicals Cum Summi and Inscrutabili Divinae Sapientiae in A.D. 1769. St. Madeleine Sophie Barat who founded the Society of the Sacred Heart is born in A.D. 1779. Pope St. Pius X publishes the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception in A.D.1904. In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys in A.D. 1917. Pope Pius XII issues The States Of Perfection [Address to a Congress] in A.D. 1957. Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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